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2017-12-14T02:00:13.000000000+00:00
They say Christmas season gets earlier every year, and the same seems to apply to CES. The year’s biggest tech show is a little less than a month away, yet Samsung’s already showing off what’s likely to be two of its bigger debuts for the show. Both are updates to the company’s solid Notebook 9 ...

2017-12-14T00:31:09.000000000+00:00
Wizeline, a provider of outsourced programming services, is expanding its global footprint with agreements to partner with a slew of development shops across Southeast Asia. Founded in 2014, the company’s vision is to provide programming jobs for developers in emerging markets to unlock the loca...

2017-12-14T00:00:10.000000000+00:00
Pace, a London startup that has developed tech that uses machine learning to let hotels set room prices dynamically based on demand, has raised £2.5 million in seed funding. The financing round is led by InterGlobe, with participation from Seedcamp, Speedinvest, and Amadeus Capital Partners. The...

2017-12-13T23:00:18.000000000+00:00
Match Group, which houses a large portfolio of dating app brands – including most notably, Tinder, Match, and OKCupid – is prepping a notable upgrade to one of its older brands: Plenty of Fish. The dating service, often dubbed ‘POF’ by its users, was founded in 2003 then sold to Match Group in 2...

2017-12-13T22:31:40.000000000+00:00
At a special AI-focused event today in San Francisco, Microsoft announced a number of feature updates to Bing that it hopes will make results smarter by leveraging the company’s AI research, as well as a new partnership with Reddit. Read More

2017-12-13T22:30:37.000000000+00:00
Microsoft introduced the Azure Bot Framework more than two years ago and companies have been building chatbots for a variety of scenarios ever since. Today, the company made generally available the Microsoft Azure Bot Service and Microsoft Cognitive Language Understanding service (known as LUIS)...

2017-12-13T22:00:58.000000000+00:00
Mobile AR from Apple, Google and Facebook and computer vision/machine learning (CV/ML) are focusing the minds and wallets of VCs in Silicon Valley, China and beyond. The $2.5 billion invested in AR/VR so far this year was balanced across AR and VR, but now mobile AR and CV/ML are the new hotness...

2017-12-13T21:54:54.000000000+00:00
Has Amazon’s ‘one-click’ checkout on mobile looked a little different to you lately? A number of users of Amazon’s mobile applications have recently reported seeing a new checkout option that replaces the click – well, on mobile, the tap – with a swipe instead. As it turns out, the option is par...

2017-12-13T21:25:40.000000000+00:00
The first thing I download on a new Windows machine – after Chrome, of course – is PuTTY. This tried-and-true OpenSSH client has served millions of devs quite well for the past twenty years and I’m sure it will still remain a favorite but Microsoft has added its own ssh client to Windows, a move...

2017-12-13T21:13:30.000000000+00:00
In a letter to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, 39 senators (all Democrats, though Republicans have also voiced concern) urge the agency to stop its plan to eliminate net neutrality rules. Where the objections have come in ones and twos before, this is the largest official complaint we’ve seen against the...

2017-12-13T20:15:12.000000000-05:00
Alabama’s Doug Jones is heading to the U.S. Senate as Democrats continue to out-perform in local elections. Conservative Max Boot says despite being a life-long Republican, he hopes “every single Republican running for election next November loses"

2017-12-13T20:03:14.000000000-05:00
Doug Jones’ victory over Roy Moore in Alabama Senate special election is being attributed to the record turnout of African American women. African American voters voted in the state voted in even higher numbers than was seen for Barack Obama in 2012.